Baptiste Lerak

It's not negative polarization, it's just that the ultimate goal for those people is to drag the Democratic Party back to its 2000s-era consensus on most if not all social issues. As such, they're going to hitch their wagon to any horse they think will bring them closer to that objective.

Some are saying that Harris is the one to beat in 2028 if she decides to throw her hat in the ring. Your thoughts?

"*most* of Woke 1" is the important part here, since the other side of the coin of Woke 1 is that its dynamics made it laughably easy for bad actors to weaponize it.

"Trying a Woke 1 campaign during Woke 2" is the best summation of Crockett's campaign I've seen.

"No more wars."

"No, more wars!"

Have you tried reminding yourself you're not a fish?

Is it usually normal to see morale plummet on Day 4 of a war of choice, sir?

Marge Simpsons must feel pretty silly right now.

Michigan J Frog reaping all the other media outlets he’s murdered knocking on Oracle’s door

Even the Americans seem a bit embarrassed to involved at all.

The biggest lesson we've taught Iran over the past 48 hours is that the only thing it can trust in is anti-shipping missiles aimed at the Strait of Hormuz and Shaheds falling regularly on Saudi oil processing plants.

The thing is that they *did* trust him! This is what keeps driving me insane: people throughout the world, rich and poor, continuing to give their trust to Donald J. Trump, the most untrustworthy man alive!

Ol' Donny Trump showing people he did business with under the bus? Why, I cannot believe him, that sounds so unlike him!

I hate cancel culture because it destroyed a generation of progressive intellectuals and weakened our defenses against fascism, which I am ambivalent to positive about.

Turns out that maybe not campaigning is a bad idea in a primary idk.

Trump would likely have told Lukashenko to go suck a lemon in 2020, and just banked on the threat of murder to cow anyone succeeding him into submission, even a democratic government.

Trump for some reason is intellectually incapable of understanding the concept of "give and take". For him, there are only the strong who do what they can and the weak who suffer what they must; any benefit the weak enjoy is simply a largesse granted by the strong.

Also, the way most modern client states controlled by petty tyrants work is that their patrons grant the regime stability and support (as we saw in Belarus for example) in exchange for political influence. Meanwhile, the Trump regime's vision is closer to colonization than anything.

A good point but I do think it underrates the phenomenal level of cowardice of modern American fascists, which is actually pretty abnormal by historical standards. You saw that with ICE for example, who went into Minneapolis kitted out as if they were entering Fallujah.

The theory here seems to be that the fear of assassination will cow the new leaders into submission, and force a surrender.

It seems to be a common thread with the new fascists that they are psychologically incapable of grasping the very idea of standing up to someone with more power than you.

We're going to watch previously unseen levels of Brandonization unfold.

I love how his answer to US soldiers getting blown up basically boils down to "Sucks to be you, I guess.".

Many libs failing the "explaining is not endorsing" test today in your mentions.

Though fandoms that attract a large number of children, teens and large adult children are particularly insufferable and dumb (stuff like Hazbin Hotel, most horror fandoms, etc.).

Same can be said of fandom unfortunately.

Sheev on the other hand is and has always been a fucking G.

There are many scenes that try to overcompensate for that, but when looked at objectively, most of what Vader does in them is styling on mooks (like the hallway scene in Rogue One).

The cult around Vader is so funny to me because Vader is, objectively speaking, a fucking loser.